I have been in contact with Tyan on the same issue with an S2875 (also SiI
3114) with Tao Linux.

There's no open source driver from Silicon Image.

However, there is some good information at

http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html

which indicates that patches are available going back to 2.4.21.

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Michael David Joy wrote:
>Hello All,
>
>I have a question about sata support in SL R3.02.
>
>I just finished building 3 dual opteron boxes with 2048MB of mem in a
>NUMA config. The boards have silicon image 3114 chips for the 250GB
>drives in the systems, however it appears that sata_sil support was left
>out of the scientific linux boot kernel. I believe Redhat Enterprise
>supports this chipset just fine, but somehow it got left out of this
>release's kernel build.
>
>In other words, SL 3.02 won't install because it can't detect the sata
>controller. The boards are Tyan S2882 Thunder K8S Pro's R1.02.
>
>Can anyone comment on this? I've resorted to installing Fedora Core 2
>x86_64 for the time being and it is working perfectly. As we are going
>to build more systems like this, I'd like to know if there's any work
>being done on this. Admittedly I can probably build a custom kernel and
>put it on a boot floppy to install SL, but this is a less than ideal
>solution. I'd like to have the kernel already built and on the dvd I'm
>using for installing without having to roll my own custom SL distro.
>
>I'm open to suggestions.
>
>Michael Joy
>HEP - University of Mississippi
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